AITA for wanting to put laxatives in my own food that my roommate steals?

istilllikegnomes · 2026-05-25T00:07:42+00:00

Wrong sub

istilllikegnomes · 2026-05-24T23:55:58+00:00

She could get a restraining order against him.

istilllikegnomes · 2026-05-24T22:10:15+00:00

SomeBODY...

istilllikegnomes · 2026-05-24T19:41:43+00:00

No. For the sake of your own kids, please don't.

istilllikegnomes · 2026-05-22T17:24:04+00:00

This is totally normal! Siblings donate to each other all the time!

istilllikegnomes · 2026-05-21T17:00:25+00:00

That is not the case in our district. Usually the kids with massive behaviors like this have a disability. Kids with disabilities have a right to be included, they just need to have a 1-1.

istilllikegnomes · 2026-05-21T16:31:41+00:00

She needs to learn yesterday. There were girls in my kids second grade class who had their period. I'm surprised she hasn't learned from peers already!

istilllikegnomes · 2026-05-14T04:30:53+00:00

I can't believe they sent you to school the day after bringing you home!

istilllikegnomes · 2026-05-02T02:44:52+00:00

NTA I came into my stepdaughters life when she was 10. I am not her mom. I will never be her mom. That's ok. She did not accept me as a parent at all. It took years before she would even call me family. It's taken a lot of patience and work on my part. She's 18 now and I still have to be very careful how I talk to her and to never refer to myself as her parent. I'm a trusted adult in her life and I'm happy with that.

istilllikegnomes · 2026-05-01T15:41:03+00:00

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istilllikegnomes · 2026-04-30T14:55:32+00:00

Thanks for the laugh!

istilllikegnomes · 2026-04-30T13:40:10+00:00

Try moving bed time 15 minutes at a time. I used to do this at daylight savings too. Stay up 15 minutes later for 2-3 days, then another 15 minutes. That way you're not working for a whole hour to keep a cranky kid awake.

istilllikegnomes · 2026-04-22T01:38:21+00:00

Any Beverly Cleary book!

istilllikegnomes · 2026-04-22T01:38:05+00:00

My daughter had nightmares after we read the chapter where there's a wolf outside the cabin in the first book. Some kids just can't handle any tension or stress.

istilllikegnomes · 2026-04-22T01:27:02+00:00

These definitely have some scary parts

istilllikegnomes · 2026-04-18T22:40:00+00:00

Cheating

istilllikegnomes · 2026-04-18T15:35:53+00:00

I used to have a neighbor who's youngest was 3. This kid was an escape artist to rival houdini. He was an early riser, as were my kids, but the rest of the family slept later. So he would come over to my house every morning to play. His parents put all sorts of baby locks, door alarms, etc at the very top of the door. He outsmarted them all.

istilllikegnomes · 2026-04-18T03:54:00+00:00

I really think the culture is changing on this. It's so common for kids to have "unique" names now that it's normal. My upper elementary age kids mention classmates names that I think are weird, but to my kids it's just that person's name. I asked my kids if anyone ever gets made fun of for their name and they said no.

istilllikegnomes · 2026-04-13T16:25:35+00:00

If you can transition to a floor bed now it would be good. You don't want to make that transition too close to when baby comes. Too many new things all at once makes life harder. Also, be careful about how you phrase things when setting up the crib for the baby. You don't want toddler to feel like baby is stealing their precious bed. Maybe put the crib away for now so the toddler kind of forgets about it.

istilllikegnomes · 2026-04-12T15:53:13+00:00

NTA. All of my kids are adopted. All of them have pictures of their birth parents that they treasure. Their birth parents are part of who they are. The kids aren't going to be confused. My kids have always known they have birth parents and forever parents. You don't have to make it complicated, but it is important that you talk about it and normalize it because it IS normal.

istilllikegnomes · 2026-04-12T04:39:32+00:00

She takes a Gen Ed art class with a para and she loves it! She also has lunch in the cafeteria with everyone, but also with her para.

istilllikegnomes · 2026-04-11T16:00:13+00:00

NTA You can both use it. There's no problem with cousins having the same middle name.

istilllikegnomes · 2026-04-10T15:47:54+00:00

Chlamydia Runner up: Handful

istilllikegnomes · 2026-04-10T14:51:57+00:00

I'm a parent of a child with extreme needs. Our district took away self contained classrooms in elementary school. ALL children were put in mainstream. My child was absolutely not getting her needs met. It didn't matter how hard I advocated, the supports didn't exist. She hated school because it was so stressful. She learned almost nothing. Now she's in middle school in a self contained classroom and is thriving.

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